From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 17:13:00 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Zilog Z80 Unix In-Reply-To: References: <19663.1492652562@cesium.clock.org> Message-ID: <20170423001300.GK15459@mcvoy.com> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 07:07:13AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Clem Cole wrote: > > > Leor Zolman had a little firm her in NE called Brain Damaged Software > > (BDS) and he wrote and marketed a full C compiler called BDS C - > > http://www.bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html [ which is now freely > > available - including the sources]. ?? For years Leor's compiler was the > > de facto standard K&R style C compiler for the 8080/z80 systems for CP/M > > and such systems. ??[What was important, is that until Leor, the CP/M > > community was using something called "Small C" which was a sub-set of > > the language.?? Leor managed to get V7/K&R into a 8080]. > > We must be talking about a different BDS C. > > I remember BDS C for all the wrong reasons; I can only repeat a remark > from Henry Spencer about another alleged C compiler: "To be called a C > compiler, it ought to at least be able to compile C." My Z-80 C compiler > was Hi-Tech C, which was full ANSI. I've never heard of Hi-Tech C but I am apparently more forgiving. I spent many happy hours using BDS C. It wasn't exactly standard, the standard I/O library was far from compat, but whatever, it was a C compiler on a CP/M system. Pretty pleasant.